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Nonfiction

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
Brian Alexander
The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Reza Aslan
Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living
Tim Bauerschmidt and Ramie Liddle
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Deborah Blum
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story
Aaron Bobrow-Strain
The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Olympics
Daniel James Brown
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
At Home: A Short History of a Private Life
Bill Bryson
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
Farm City: the Education of an Urban Farmer
Novella Carpenter
Unshakeable Confidence: The Freedom to be Our Authentic Selves: Mindfulness for Women
Mare Chapman
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua
The Person You Mean to Be
Dolly Chugh
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Educating Esme
Esme Codell
Connecting Across Differences: Finding Common Ground With Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime
Jane Marantz Connor
Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Dave Cullen
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin DiAngelo
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
Spare
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
Firoozeh Dumas
My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Dan Egan
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan
Zeitoun
Dave Eggers
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Nora Ephron
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
Bossypants
Tina Fey
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Michael Finkel
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
Angela Garbes
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Janesville: An American Story
Amy Goldstein
Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-century Wisconsin
Sergio M. González
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Lori Gottlieb
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Henry Grabar
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
Blood, Bones and Butter: the Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Gabrielle Hamilton
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir
Michele Harper
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table
Minda Harts
Dead Lines: Slices of Life from the Obit Beat
George Hesselberg
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Tony Horwitz
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
George M. Johnson
That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
Amanda Jones
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It
Jason Karlawish
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
The Strength in What Remains
Tracy Kidder
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
In the Garden of Beasts: love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin
Erik Larson
Isaac's Storm
Erik Larson
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
Let's Pretend This Never Happened : (A Mostly True Memoir)
Jenny Lawson
The Soloist
Steve Lopez
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father
David Maraniss
Crossing Over: a Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Ruben Martinez
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May
Diary of a Young Naturalist
Dara McAnulty
The Color of Water
James McBride
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
David McRaney
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard
Dewey: the Small Town Library Cat
Vicki Myron
Enrique's Journey
Sonia Nazario
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads With an Indian Elder
Kent Nerburn
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Under the Sky We Make: How to Be Human in a Warming World
Kimberly Nicholas, PhD
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi
Becoming
Michelle Obama
The Light We Carry
Michelle Obama
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--and How You Can, Too
Ijeoma Oluo
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
Michael Perry
Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time
Michael Perry
Truck: A Love Story
Michael Perry
Fire Road: The Napalm Girl's Journey Through the Horrors of War to Faith, Forgiveness, and Peace
Kim Phúc
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age
Mary Bray Pipher
Dead Man Walking
Helen Prejean
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: a Tale of Love and Fallout
Lauren Redniss
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Ruth Reichl
Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South
Margaret Renkl
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Mary Roach
The Happiness Project: or, the Way I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right...
Gretchen Rubin
We are Staying: Eighty Years in the Life of a Family, a Store, and a Neighborhood
Jen Rubin
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Layla F. Saad
Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff
An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting With Destiny
Laura Schroff
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris
The Bookseller of Kabul
Asne Seierstad
Settlin': Stories of Madison's Early African American Families
Muriel Simms
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed
Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana
Abe Streep
Three Women
Lisa Taddeo
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Rebekah Taussig
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
Sandy Tolan
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask
Anton Treuer
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine
Damon Tweedy
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
How to Make a Life: A Tibetan Refugee Family and the Midwestern Woman They Adopted
Madeline Uraneck
Hillbilly Elegy
J. D. Vance
Decolonizing Wealth
Edgar Villanueva
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
Jeannette Walls
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns: the Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai
For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance
Victoria Zackheim
Solito: A Memoir
Javier Zamora
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner